Luminaris, Juan Pablo Zaramella, 2011

Inspired by the Argentinian instrumental tango piece entitled “Lluvia de Estrellas” (Star Rain), “Luminaris” tells the story of a man living in a world controlled and timed by light. Each day inhabitants of this fictional world awake and are pulled, as if by some otherworldly force, to their jobs by sunlight. Combining pixilation and stop motion techniques; the surrealist short pairs styles reminiscent of art deco with black cinema. Zaramella explains, "Originally, I approached the project as a puppet animation story, but doing some pixilation tests in the gardens of Fontevraud, just for fun, the seed of the present short was born: the idea of sunlight as a magnetic force.”

Winner of Audience Award at Annecy International Animation Festival
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Country: Argentina
Duration: 6.17

NZ Book Council - Going West

The book in the animation is Maurice Gee's,a distinguished fiction writer from New Zealand.

Film for New Zealand Book Council

Produced by Colenso BBDO
Animated by Andersen M Studio

Inception - Done in 60 seconds - Wolfgang Matzl (2011)

Inception is one of the finalists of the film competition "Done in 60 Seconds" by Jameson Whisky in Germany.

Using Victorian prints, Wolfgang Matzl created this stop-motion version of Christopher Nolan’s Inception for a contest that required filmmakers to produce a movie with a maximum length of 60 seconds.

Train of Thought -Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas (2009)

A short film in paper by Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas.

In a world made entirely out of paper, the wistful drawings in a man′s sketchbook are brought to life by the rhythm of a train journey....


"Train of Thought was made as our graduation film from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2008-2009. Although we used digital compositing software, all the animation and models were done by hand, not with CGI. The film took approximately 9 months to complete, from storyboards through to the final edit. It was a team effort, and we were especially lucky to work with talented modelmaking students, and a mix of professional and student actors".


Directors:
Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas
Actors:
Napoleon Ryan & Marie Thomas Galvin
Animation:
Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas

The music is by Portico Quartet arranged by Jack Wyllie
and sound design by Andrew South vimeo.com/​andrewsoundesign

Making of on youtube
Official film website - including full credits